Publisher delays Palin biography for tweens (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jul 16, 2010
AP - Christian book publisher Zondervan is delaying publication of a Sarah Palin biography for young readers.
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Justice Sotomayor aims to inspire by writing memoir (Reuters)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jul 12, 2010
Reuters - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will write a "coming-of-age memoir" detailing her modest immigrant upbringing in New York to her appointment as the first Hispanic to serve on the nation's highest court, said publisher Alfred A. Knopf on Monday.
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Hotdoggin’ it: Ex-champ crashes NYC eating contest (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Sports News on Jul 4, 2010

World Champion hot dog eater Joey Chestnut celebrates his win at the Famous Nathan's Hot Dog Eating contest eating 54 hot dogs Sunday, July 4, 2010 in the Brooklyn borough of New York.(AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)AP - A Japanese eating champion who sat out this year's Coney Island Fourth of July hot dog contest apparently couldn't resist the temptation to hotdog afterward.



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Cameron, Merkel watch key World Cup match (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Sports News on Jun 27, 2010
AP - British Prime Minister David Cameron and his German Chancellor Angela Merkel have far bigger concerns than the world economy at the Toronto G-20 summit of world leaders.
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Ky. con man gets 2 life sentences for 1980 deaths (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jun 21, 2010

Patrick Hack, front right, brother of murder victim Tim Hack, reads a statement Monday, June 21, 2010 in Jefferson, Wis. at the sentencing of Edward W. Edwards, as relatives of the murder victims cry in the background. Edwards was sentenced to a pair of life terms for the murders of Tim Hack and Kelly Drew in 1980. (AP Photo/Scott Bauer)AP - An aging con man who confessed to killing at least five people over 18 years and wrote an autobiography detailing his life of crime was sentenced to two life terms in prison Monday — his second such sentence in as many weeks.



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Bradley’s late strike seals US draw with Slovenia (AFP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Sports News on Jun 18, 2010

US midfielder Landon Donovan waves to supporters at the end of their Group C first round 2010 World Cup football match against Slovenia in Johannesburg.(AFP/Gabriel Bouys)AFP - Midfielder Michael Bradley's late goal sealed the United States' fight back as they drew 2-2 with Slovenia at the World Cup on Friday night to keep their hopes of reaching the Last 16 alive.



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Poet Eamon Grennan gives literary archive to Emory (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jun 15, 2010
AP - Irish poet Eamon Grennan is placing his literary papers at Emory University's library in Atlanta.
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US author Kingsolver wins top book award for women (AFP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jun 9, 2010

Winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction, US novelist Barbara Kingsolver reacts after receiving the 2010 Orange Prize for Fictionher award with her sixth novel AFP - US author Barbara Kingsolver won Britain's Orange Prize for Fiction, which honours English-language novels by women from around the world, on Wednesday with her sixth novel "The Lacuna".



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Ex-Tyco CEO Kozlowski sues Steve Forbes for libel (Reuters)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on Jun 1, 2010
Reuters - Dennis Kozlowski, the imprisoned former chief executive of Tyco International Ltd, is suing Steve Forbes and publisher Random House Inc for libel.
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NM mayor sues local newspaper publisher for libel (AP)

Posted by Yahoo! News: Entertainment News on May 28, 2010
AP - The mayor of Gallup in western New Mexico has filed a defamation lawsuit against the local newspaper publisher, claiming the newspaper intentionally harmed him by publishing articles about a 1948 rape case in which the mayor was implicated but never tried nor convicted.
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